How To Install Yii Framework

Adding Yii Framework

Head over to Yii's website and download Yii Framework. Once the download completed, extract Yii to an easy to remember place inside of you htdocs folder. I went with

C:\xampp\htdocs\yii\

Now that Yii is in place, navigate to your htdocs folder from Command Prompt

C:\ > cd C:\xampp\htdocs

And run the following command to generate your first web app. Be sure to replace yii-app with your application name. At the first prompt, type yes to build the web app.

C:\xampp\htdocs\ > php.exe yii/framework/yiic.php webapp C:\xampp\htdocs\yii-app